UCLA VLSI CAD LAB NEWS
April, 2013 : Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award -- Guojie Luo
.
Congratulations to Dr. Guojie Luo who received the 2013 ACM SIGDA Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in electronic design automation. His thesis is on "Placement and Design Planning for 3D Intergrated Circuits". The award will be presented at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) on June 4th in Austin, TX.
December, 2012 : New Ph.D. -- Bin Liu
.
Congratulations to Dr. Bin Liu who received his Ph.D. degree in December 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis is on "High-Level Synthesis for Nanoscale Integrated Circuits".
September, 2012 : New Ph.D. -- Chunyue Liu
.
Congratulations to Dr. Chunyue Liu who received his Ph.D. degree in September 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis is on "Architecture Support for Customized Domain-Specific Computing". After graduation, Dr. Liu has joined Google at Seattle, MA.
June, 2012 : New Ph.D. -- Yi Zou.
Congratulations to Dr. Yi Zou who received his Ph.D. degree in June 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis is on "Coprocessor Acceleration for Domain-Specific Computing".
June, 2012 : Best Paper Award in 2012 ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES).
Professor Jason Cong is a recipient of the 2012 ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) Best Paper Award for the journal entitled "Behavior-Level observability Analysis for Operation Gating in Low-Power Behavioral Synthesis," with co-authors from UCLA Bin Liu and Rupak Majumdar, and Zhiru Zhang from AutoESL Design Technologies, Inc. The award was presented on June 5, 2012 at the Design Automation Conference held in San Francisco, CA.
March, 2012 : Professor
Cong: Keynote Speaker at SASIMI 2012.
Professor Cong served as the keynote speaker at The 17th Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of Mixed Information technologies (SASIMI 2012) which was held on March 8, 2012 at Oita, Japan. Prof. Cong's talk was titled "Parallelization, Customization and Automation”.
Nov, 2011 : Professor
Cong: Award presenter at the 2011 Phil Kaufman Award Banquet.
Professor Cong gave the presentation at the Phid Kaufman Award dinner in honor of Professor C. L. David Liu, recipient of the 18th Phil Kaufman Award by EDAC and CEDA, for his distinguished contributions to Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Professor Liu is a distinguished engineer and educator, and an astute business leader. The Phil Kaufman Award honors individuals who have had demonstrable impact on the field of electronic design through contributions in EDA.
The video of Prof. Cong's presentation is available here (starting from slides 18).
Sep, 2011 : Professor Cong served as keynote speaker at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 2011).
Professor Cong gave the keynote speech "Era of Customization and Specialization" at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 2011). The conference was held in Santa Monica, CA, 11-14 September 2011.
June, 2011 : Professor
Cong and Dr. Eugene Ding receive ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact
Award in Electronic Design Automation 2011 .
Congratulations to Professor Jason Cong and his
former Ph.D. student Dr. Eugene Ding (now with Xilinx). They received this
year's ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design
Automation at the opening session of the 48th Design Automation Conference. The
award was given for pioneering work on technology mapping for FPGAs that has
made a significant impact on the FPGA research community and industry, as
evidenced by a paper published at least ten years prior to the award. Prof.
Cong and Dr. Ding are honored for their paper "FlowMap: An Optimal
Technology Mapping Algorithm for Delay Optimization in Lookup-Table Based FPGA
Designs" , IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, vol 13, no. 1, pp.
1-12, January 1994. (Link
to UCLAToday, photo)
May, 2011 : Best
Paper Award in the 19th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom
Computing Machines (FCCM 2011).
A team from UCLA and UIUC has won a Best Paper Award
for the collaborative Multilevel Granularity Parallelism Synthesis on
FPGAs. The paper, authored by A.
Papakonstantinou, Y. Liang, J. Stratton, K. Gururaj, D. Chen, W. M. Hwu, and J.
Cong, was selected out of 120 submissions to the 2011 IEEE International
Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines. This work
(code-named FCUDA-II) offers an advanced modeling and search engine in the
multi-granularity parallelism design space to map CUDA kernels to FPGAs. It
offers up to 7x speedup in terms of performance compared to the original FCUDA
work (which received the Best Paper Award at SASP 2009).
April, 2011 : UCLA-led
team with Guojie Luo, Bingjun Xiao and Jason Cong (advisor) won the Second
Prize in the routability-driven placement contest@ISPD 2011.
The annual design contest at this year's 20th
annual International Symposium on
Physical Design (ISPD 2011) concentrated on the global routing congestion
problems that plague lithographic placement algorithms below the 65-nanometer
node. Second place went to "mPL11" developed by a team from the lab
of Prof. Jason Cong at the
February, 2011 : Engineering entrepreneurs: Taking
university research to the public.
AutoESL was founded directly
by faculty and graduate students from the UCLA Henry Samueli
November, 2010 : Bin Liu and Yi Zou won the First
Prize of CADathlon@ICCAD.
PhD students Bin Lin
and Yi Zou of Prof. Jason Cong in the Computer Science Department won the First
Prize of CADathlon @ ICCAD, which took place on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2010 prior to
ICCAD'2010. The Second Prize were shared by two teams from
July, 2010 : Professor Jason Cong is the recipient of
the 2010 IEEE Circuits and System (CAS) Society Technical Achievement Award.
Prof. Jason Cong is
the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Circuits and System (CAS) Society Technical
Achievement Award. This award honors the individual whose exceptional technical
contributions to a field within the scope of the CAS Society have been
consistently evident over a period of years. The citation of the award for
Prof. Cong reads “ For seminal contributions to electronic design automation,
especially in FPGA synthesis, VLSI interconnect optimization, and physical
design automation”. Prof. Cong will receive the award at the IEEE
International SoC Conference on September 27. 2010. (Link to CAS
newsletter, photo)
June, 2010 : New Ph.D. -- Kirill Minkovich
Congratulations to Dr.
Kirill Minkovich who received his Ph.D. degree in April 2010 under the
supervision of Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis is on "Logic Synthesis for
Nanometer IC Technologies". After graduation, Kirill will work at HRL
Laboratories as a postdoc.
December, 2009 : New Ph.D. -- Wei Jiang
Congratulations to Dr.
Wei jiang who received his Ph.D. degree in November 2009 under the supervision
of Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis is on "Program Analysis and Transformation
for ESL Synthesis". After graduation, Wei will join Google Inc. at
August, 2009 : NSF awards UCLA $10 million to create
customized computing technology
The UCLA Henry Samueli
School of Engineering and Applied Science has been awarded a $10 million grant
by the National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing program to
develop high-performance, energy efficient, customizable computing that could
revolutionize the way computers are used in health care and other important
applications. Professor Jason Cong will be the Director of the new UCLA Center
for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC), which will oversee the research.Research
being conducted by the CDSC is a collaborative effort among faculty from UCLA's
engineering school, medical school and applied mathematics program, as well as
faculty from Rice University, Ohio State University and UC Santa Barbara. In
particular, Professors Jens Palsberg, Miodrag Potkonjak and Glenn Reinman from
the UCLA CS Dept will also be involved in the Center. Congratulations to
Professor Cong and all the faculty involved in the center
January, 2009 : Professor Jason Cong named ACM fellow
"For contributions to Electronic Design Automation"
Congratulations to
Professor Jason Cong for being named an ACM fellow "For contributions to
electronic design automation". This year ACM has recognized 44 of its
members for their contributions to computing technology that have generated a
broad range of innovations for industry, commerce, entertainment, and
education. Quoting from the ACM website:
"These men and women are the inventors of technology that impact the way
people live and work throughout the world," said ACM President, Professor
Dame Wendy Hall. "Their selection as 2008 ACM Fellows offers us an
opportunity to recognize their dedicated leadership in this dynamic field, and
to honor their contributions to solving complex problems, expanding the impact
of technology, and advancing the quality of life for people everywhere."
February, 2008 : Best Paper Award in International
Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
A joint CS/EE paper
authored by Frank Chang, Jason Cong, Adam Kaplan, Mishali Naik, Glenn Reinman,
Eran Socher, and Rocco Tam has received the best paper award from the 14th
International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) held
February 16-20, 2008. This year's symposium received 161 papers, accepted 31,
and gave only one best paper award.
This paper, "CMP
Network-on-Chip Overlaid With Multi-Band RF-Interconnect," explores the
use of multi-band RF interconnect with signal propagation at the speed of light
to provide shortcuts in a many-core network-on-chip (NOC) mesh topology.
January, 2008 : New Ph.D. -- Guoling Han
Congratulations to Dr.
Guoling Han who received his Ph.D. degree in January 2008 under the supervision
of Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis is on "Synthesis Techniques for
Application-Specific Processor-Based Design". After graduation, Guoling
will join AutoESL Design Technologies in
January, 2008 : SCDsource article about UCLA VLSI CAD
LAB research on RF-interconnect
SCDsource mentioned
Jason Cong and CADLab in their article entitled, "Multi-band RF
interconnect speeds network-on-chip"
December, 2007 : UCLA Newsroom article about UCLA
VLSI CAD LAB research
UCLA Newsroom
mentioned Jason Cong and CADLab in their article entitled, "UCLA
scientists working to create smaller, faster integrated circuits"
November, 2007 : SolidState Technology article about
UCLA VLSI CAD LAB research on 3D IC designs
SolidState Technology
mentioned Jason Cong and CADLab in their article entitled, "Moore's
Law to head z-ward?"
April, 2007 : Zhiru Zhang received 2006-2007
Outstanding Ph.D. Award
Congratulations to Dr.
Zhiru Zhang for receiving the Outstanding Ph.D. Award from the UCLA Computer
Science Department for the academic year 2006-2007. The CS department
designates one Ph.D. and one MS recipient as the outstanding Ph.D. and MS
student for our department for the year. The award will be formally announced
in June 2007 at the Commencement of the UCLA
March, 2007 : New Ph.D. -- Zhiru Zhang
Congratulations to Dr.
Zhiru Zhang who received his Ph.D. degree in March 2007 under the supervision
of Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis
is on "Behavior-Level Scheduling and Planning for Nanometer IC
Designs". After graduation, Zhiru will join AutoESL Design Technologies in
December, 2006 : New Ph.D. -- Joey Yizhou Lin
Congratulations to Dr.
Joey Y. Lin who received his Ph.D. degree in December 2006 under the
supervision of Prof. Jason Cong.
His thesis is on "Physical Synthesis Techniques For FPGA Optimization".
Joey is currently with Magma Design Automation Inc.,
December, 2006 : New Ph.D. -- Yiping Fan
Congratulations to Dr.
Yiping Fan who received his Ph.D. degree in December 2006 under the supervision
of Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis
is on "Interconnect Oriented Microarchitectures and Resource Binding in
Behavioral Synthesis". After his graduation, Yiping will join AutoESL
Design Technologies, Inc.,
September, 2006 : New Ph.D. -- Min Xie
Congratulations to Dr.
Min Xie who received his Ph.D. degree in September 2006 under the supervision
of Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis
is on "Constraint-Driven Large-scale Circuit Placement Algorithms".
After his graduation, Min will join KBC Financial Products USA Inc.,
September, 2006 : New Ph.D. -- Yan Zhang
Congratulations to Dr.
Yan Zhang who received her Ph.D. degree in September 2006 under the supervision
of Prof. Jason Cong. Her thesis
is on "Multilevel Routing for Higher Degree of Circuit Integration".
After her graduation, Yan will join Magma Design Automation Inc.,
June, 2006 : New Ph.D. -- Kenton Nang Keung Sze
Congratulations to Dr.
Kenton N. K. Sze who received his Ph.D. degree in June 2006 under the
supervision of Prof. Tony Chan and
Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis is
on "Multilevel Optimization for VLSI Circuit Placement". After his
graduation, Kenton will join Magma Design Automation Inc.,
February, 2006: EE Times article about UCLA VLSI CAD
LAB research
The recent published
paper "Optimality study of logic synthesis for LUT-based FPGAs" by
Jason Cong, Kirill Minkovich (FPGA 2006) was the subject of an article
that appeared on the EE times magazine in
its online edition for the 20th of February.
Zhiru Zhang received
the 2005-2006 Phi Tau Phi Scholarship Award which is given each year by the
West America Chapter of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society to four
undergraduate or graduate students in the southern California in recognition of
their academic achievements and scholarly contributions. The award consists of
a certificate and a cash prize of $1,000. Zhiru is the first person in Prof.
Cong's group who has received this award since its establishment in 1995.
Congratulations to Dr.
Deming Chen who received his Ph.D. degree in August 2005 under the supervision
of Prof. Jason Cong. His
thesis is on "Design and Synthesis for Low-Power FPGAs". After his
graduation, Deming will join ECE Department at
Congratulations to Prof. Jason Cong, Dr. Xin Yuan, and Hui Huang for receiving
the 2005 Best Paper Award of the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of
Electronic Systems (TODAES) of the following paper. TODAES selects one paper
each year for the best paper award, and this award was presented at the
openning session at the opening session of the 2005 Design Automation
Conference (DAC'2005) on
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Congratulations to Dr. Ashok Jagannathan who received his Ph.D. degree in May
2005 under the supervision of Prof.
Jason Cong. His thesis is on "Microarchitecture Evaluation and
Optimization in Interconnect-Limited Technologies". After his graduation,
Ashok will join Intel
The paper by T.Chan, J. Cong, and K. Sze entitled "Multilevel Generalized
Force-directed Method for Circuit Placement" received the Best Paper Award
at the 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD'2005), held during
April 4-6,
Congratulations to Dr. Michail Romesis who received his Ph.D. degree in March
2005 under the supervision of Prof.
Jason Cong. His thesis is on "Automatic Design Planning and
Exploration for VLSI Systems". After his graduation, Michail will join
Magma Design Automation in the
January, 2005: EE Times article about UCLA VLSI CAD
LAB research
The recently published paper "Fast Floorplanning by Look-Ahead Enabled
Recursive Bipartitioning" by Jason Cong, Michail Romesis and Joseph
Shinnerl (ASPDAC 2005) was the subject of an article
that appeared on the EE times magazine in
its online edition for the 31st of January.
The new year brings new tools to the
Congratulations to Dr. Gang Chen who received his Ph.D. degree in Dec 2004
under the supervision of Prof.
Jason Cong. His thesis is on "Unified Synthesis Techniques for High
Performance FPGA Designs". Since 2003, Michael works for Magma Design
Automation in
Congratulations to Ashok Jagannathan who received the highly competitive and
prestigious Intel Fellowship. This competitive fellowship program awards 1-year
fellowships to PhD candidates doing work in fields related to Intel's business
and research interests. Fellowships are available at selected
Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yuan who received her Ph.D. degree in Aug 2003 under
the supervision of Prof. Jason Cong.
Her thesis is on "Multi-level Coarse Placement for Physical Hierarchy
Generation". After her graduation, Xin joined IBM EDA in
Michail Romesis received the 2003
Dimitris Chorafas Foundation Award which is given each year to three graduate
students in the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for their
outstanding research and academic performance. The award consists of a
certificate and a cash prize of $4,000. Michail is the fifth person in Prof.
Cong's group who has received this award since its establishment in 1995.
The four previous winners from this group were Cheng-Kok Koh (1996), Lei He
(1997), Songjie Xu (1999) and David Pan (2000).
April, 2003: Best poster award at UCLA research
review
The poster from the SOC group (Yiping Fan, Guoling Han, Xun Yang, Zhiru Zhang)
with the title "Architecture and Synthesis
for Multi-Cycle Communication" won the best individual poster award at
the annual UCLA Computer Science Research Review. This year's research review
featured more than 70 posters from all the research groups of the Computer
Science Department.
April, 2003: EE Times article about UCLA VLSI CAD LAB
research
The recently published paper "Optimality, Scalability and Stability Study
of Partitioning and Placement Algorithms" by Jason Cong, Michail Romesis
and Min Xie (ISPD 2003) was the subject of an article that appeared
on the EE times magazine in its online
edition for the 10th of April.
February, 2003: UCLA VLSI CAD LAB on the cover of EE
Times
The recently published paper "Optimality
and Scalability Study of Existing Placement Algorithms" by Chin-Chih
Chang, Jason Cong, and Min Xie (ASPDAC 2003) was the subject of an article that appeared
in the cover of the EE times magazine in
its online edition for the 5th of February.
May, 2002:
Tianming Kong received 2001-02 Outstanding Ph.D. Award
Congratulations to Tim
Kong for receiving the Outstanding Ph.D. Award from the UCLA Computer Science
Department for the academic year 2001-2002.
Sept, 2001:
New Visiting Researcher -- Mr. Hidetoshi Matsuoka from Fujitsu Laboratories
Hidetoshi
Matsuoka joined the research group of Prof. Jason Cong as visiting researcher
from Fujitsu Laboratories. He will be with UCLA for a year. Matsuoka received
his M.S. degree in electronic engineering in 1989. His research interest is
multilayer area routing.
Sept, 2001:
New graduate student -- Min Xie
Min Xie
joined the research group of Prof. Jason Cong in September
2001. Min received his M.S. degree from
Currently he works on multilayer gridless area routing.
Sept, 2001:
New graduate student -- Zhiru Zhang
Zhiru
Zhang joined the research group of Prof. Jason Cong in September
2001. Zhiru received his B.S. degree from
His current research emphasis is on system-on-a-chip(SoC).
Sept, 2001:
New graduate student -- Yiping Fan
Yiping Fan
joined the research group of Prof. Jason Cong in September
2001. Yiping received his M.S. degree from
Currently he works on SOC.
Sept, 2001:
Prof. Jason Cong received the SRC Technical Excellence Award Recipient for Year
2000.
In a letter
dated on August 24, 2001 from Dr. Dinesh Mehta, Vice President, Business
Operations & Strategic initiatives to Prof. Walter Karplus, Dean of UCLA
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, it says
" It is a great pleasure
to inform you that Professor Jason Cong has been selected to be the SRC
Technical Excellence recipient for the year 2000. Dr. Cong's work in the area
of Interconnect Estimation, Planning and Synthesis for Sub-Micron Designs has
significantly enhanced the productivity of the
The SRC Technical Excellence
Award is given annually to researchers who, over a period of years, have
demonstrated creative, consistent contributions to the field of semiconductor research,
who are ground breakers and leaders in their fields, and who are regarded as
model collaborators with their colleagues in the SRC member community.
The SRC operates globally to
provide a competitive advantage to its member companies as the world's premier
research management consortium delivering relevantly educated technical talent
and early research results. The SRC plans and manages a program of basic and
applied university research on behalf of its participating members.
We are very proud of the
contributions made by Jason and his students and wish them continued
success."
June, 2001:
New SRC Contract for Prof. Jason Cong's Group
Jason Cong's research group was awarded another contract from Semiconductor
Research
Corporation (SRC) on "Synthesis and Optimization under Physical
Hierarchy".
The specific tasks in this project include physical hierarchy generation,
behavioral-level and logic-level synthesis under physical hierarchy and
applications
to synthesis with timing closure, micro-architecture evaluation and incremental
system designs.
June, 2001: Second alumni reunion meeting of Professor Jason Cong at DAC
During this year's Design Automation Conference in
group and alumni held a reunion meeting. Seven people from UCLA attended
the meeting and six former students/visitors. This is intended to be
an annual event occurring at every DAC. Alumni interested in attending
the event should contact us at michail@cs.ucla.edu with his/her latest contact
information.
June, 2001: Songjie Xu and David Pan received 2000-01 Outstanding Ph.D.
Award
Congratulations
to Songjie Xu and David Pan for receiving the Outstanding Ph.D.
Award
from the UCLA Computer Science Department for the academic year 2000-2001.
The
awards were formally announced on
UCLA
June, 2001: Dr. Wangning Long completed his post-doctoral research at
UCLA
Dr. Wangning Long has completed his post-doctoral research at UCLA with Prof.
Jason
Cong. His research at UCLA was on SPFD and its application to rewiring.
In
June 2001, he presented his work on "Theory and Algorithm for Global
SPFD-Based
Rewiring" at the 2001 International Workshop of Logic Synthesis . He
is
now with the Aplus Design Technologies, Inc. as a Senior Engineer.
May, 2001: New post-doctoral researcher - Xun Yang
Dr. Xun Yang joined the
research group of Prof. Jason Cong as a post-doctoral
researcher. Xun received his Ph.D. degree from the Beijing
Institute of
Technology in computer science. He also worked at Tsinghua University as
a post-doctoral researcher from March 1999 to April 2001. His current
interests
include hardware/software co-design and co-verification.
May, 2001: New visiting scholar -- Zhong Chen
Dr. Zhong Chen joined the research group of Prof. Jason Cong as a visiting
scholar.
Dr. Chen is a Professor at the department of computer science and technology
at Beijing University,
based on system-on-a-chip, software-hardware co-design and embedded system
technology.
March, 2001: New NSF Award on System-On-A-Chip
The proposal to NSF on Giga-Scale System-On-A-Chip Designhas been funded.
This award will support the establishment of an
NSC (National Science Council) in
ndation) in
center include investigation and development of efficient SOC synthesis tools,
methodologies, SOC verification, test and diagnostic technologies, and an SOC
design driver that motivates and validates various synthesis, verification
and test techniques developed during the course of this research project.
February, 2001: New Ph.D. -- Jie Fang
Jie Fang received his Ph.D. in February 2001 under Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis
was on "Multi-Layer Gridless Detailed Routing". Jie is now a Design
Engineer
with Broadcom.
February, 2001: Dr. Taku Uchino has completed his term as a visiting
researcher
at
UCLA
Dr.
Taku Uchino has completed his term as a visiting researcher at UCLA and
returned
back
to Toshiba. His research in Prof. Jason Congss group was on power
modeling
for interconnect planning in deep submicron designs. A major part of his
research
result will appear in a paper entitiled "An Interconnect
Energy
Model
Considering Coupling Effects" at the 2001 Design Automation Conference.
December,
2000 : Prof. Jason Cong Was Elected as an IEEE Fellow
Congratulations to Prof. Jason Cong,
who was elected to an Fellow of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers), a leading technical professional association of more
than 350,000 individual members in 150 countries, in technical areas ranging
from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to
electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics, among others. In a letter
issued by Dr. Bruce A. Eisenstein, the President of IEEE, it states that
"Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow
Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the Institute's
most prestigious honors, election to IEEE Fellow." Dr. Jason Cong was
elected to an IEEE Fellow at the meeting of the IEEE Board of Directors on
November,
2000 : New Ph.D. -- David (Zhigang) Pan
Congratulations to Mr. David (Zhigang)
Pan who received his Ph.D. degree in November 2000 under the supervision of
Prof. Jason Cong. His
thesis is on "Interconnect synthesis and planning for high-performance IC
designs". He is now with the
September,
2000 : New Ph.D. -- Songjie Xu
Congratulations to Ms. Songjie Xu
who received her Ph.D. degree in September 2000 under the supervision of Prof. Jason Cong. Her thesis
is on "Synthesis for High-Density and High-Performance SRAM-Based
FPGAs". She is now with the Aplus Design Technologies, Inc. in
September,
2000: New graduate student -- Ashok Jagannathan
Ashok Jagannathan joined the research group of Prof. Jason Cong in September
2000.
Ashok received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
from the University of Illinois, Chicago. The title of his thesis was
"Applications
of Shortest Path Algorithm to VLSI Layout Problems". His current
research area
is on interconnect optimization.
September,
2000: New graduate student -- Yan Zhang
Yan Zhang joined the research group of Prof. Jason Cong in
September 2000. Yan
received
her M.S. degree from
multilayer
general area gridless routing.
September,
2000 New graduate student -- Yizhou Lin
Yizhou Lin joined the research group of Prof. Jason Cong in September
2000. Yizhou
received
a B.S. degree from
emphasis
is on logic synthesis and optimization.
August,
2000: New graduate student -- Deming Chen
Deming Chen
joined the research group of Prof. Jason Cong in August 2000. Deming
received his BS degree from the
area in on synthesis for programmable logics.
VLSI CAD in
the 21st Century
"VLSI CAD
in the 21st Century" is a celebraton of Prof. Cong and VLSI CAD Lab's 10th
anniversary at UCLA. It also serves as the first reunion for all current and
former members of Prof. Cong's research group.
The highlight of this workshop
includes the keynote speech by Prof. C.L. Liu (Prof. Cong's Ph.D. advisor, who
is now President of
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Preliminary Program for "VLSI CAD in the 21st
Century" Workshop
- in Celebration of Prof. Cong and VLSI CAD Lab's 10th Anniversary at UCLA
June 10, Saturday
Marina del Rey Hotel 13534 Bali Way,
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Tel: (310)301-1000, (800)882-4000,
http://www.marinadelreyhotel.com/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------
Friday, June
Westwood
Brewing Factory
Saturday, June
10
8:00-9:00
Breakfast
9:00-9:10 Welcome
9:10-9:45 Keynote speech by Prof. C.L. Liu, President of National Tsing-Hua
University, Taiwan. (title TBD)
9:45-10:45 Invited talk by 2-3 former Ph.D. students of Prof. Cong in
FPGA/logic synthesis (titles TBD)
10:45-11:00 break 11-12:00 Invited talks by 3 former Ph.D students of Prof.
Cong in physical design (titles TBD)
12:30-2:30 Lunch + lunch speeches by
+ brief
address by Prof. Dick Muntz (CSD Chairman) and present a plate to Prof. Cong
(contributed by current and former students)
+ speech by Prof. Cong
6:30- Dinner (place TBD)
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Organizational Committee:
Chin-Chih Chang, Michael Chen, Sung Lim, Janice Martin, David Pan, Xin Yuan
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June, 2000 :
New Ph.D. -- Sung-Kyu Lim
Congratulations to Sung-Kyu Lim who
received his Ph.D. degree in June 2000 under the supervision of Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis is on
"Performance Driven Circuit Partitioning". Sung came to UCLA VLSI CAD
Laboratory in Fall 1995.
May, 2000 :
Chang Wu and Lei He received 1999-2000 Outstanding Ph.D. Award
Lei He and Chang Wu received the 1999-2000 UCLA Computer
Science Department Outstanding Ph.D. Award for their outstanding
achievements during their Ph.D. study at UCLA. Dr. He is now a faculty member
at
May, 2000 :
David Pan Received Dimitris Chorafs Foundation Award
May. 29, 2000. David Pan
received the 2000 Dimitris Chorafas Foundation Award which is given each year
to two graduate students in the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
for their outstanding research and academic performance. The award consists of
a certificate and a cash prize of $4,000. David is the fourth person in Prof.
Cong's group who has received this award since its establishment in 1995.
The three previous winners from this group were Cheng-Kok Koh (1996), Lei He
(1997) and Songjie Xu (1999).
October, 1999
: Congraturations to Songjie Xu
September,
1999 : New Ph.D. -- Lei He
Lei He received his Ph.D. degree in Sept.
1999 under the supervision of Prof. Jason
Cong. Lei came to UCLA VLSI CAD Laboratory in Fall 1994. His thesis
is on "Modeling and Optimization of VLSI Interconnects". He joined
the Faculty of ECE Department of University
of Wisconsin at Madison.
September,
1999 : New Graduate Student -- Michael (Gang) Chen
Michael enrolled in the Ph.D. program at
UCLA Computer Science Department this fall and joined Prof. Jason Cong's group as a graduate student
researcher. Michael received his BS degree in the Computer Science Department
of Tsinghua University in the summer
of 1999.
September,
1999 : New Visiting Researcher -- Dr. Taku Uchino from Toshiba
Dr. Taku Uchino joined Prof. Jason Cong's group at UCLA as
visiting researcher from Toshiba Corporation.
He will be with UCLA for a year and a half. Dr. Uchino received his Ph.D.
degree in physics in 1993. His current research interest is power
estimation in DSM technology.
August, 1999
: New Postdoc -- Dr. Wangning Long
Dr. Wangning Long joined Prof. Jason Cong's group as a
post-doctoral researcher. He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in
August, 1999
: New Ph.D. -- Chang Wu
Chang Wu received his Ph.D. degree in
Aug. 1999 under the supervision of Prof.
Jason Cong. Chang came to UCLA VLSI CAD Laboratory in Winter 1995,
first as a visiting scholar, later became a Ph.D. students. His thesis is on
"Performance-Driven FPGA Synthesis for Sequential Circuits". He is
now with Aplus Design Technologies as a
Senior Engineer.
August, 1999
: NSF Workshop on System-on-a-Chip in Taiwan
An International workshop on "Challenges and Opportunities In
Giga-Scale Integration for System-On-A-Chip", under the joint
sponsorship of US National Science Foundation
and Taiwan National Research Council, was
held in
August, 1999
: 1990-2000 California MICRO Award on Interconnect Planning and Optimization
California MICRO Program
awarded the research project at UCLA VLSI
CAD Laboratory on "Interconnect Planning and Optimization"
for 1999-2000. This project is co-sponsored by Fujitsu Laboratories of America.
This project will be directed by Prof. Jason
Cong.
August, 1999
: 1990-2000 California MICRO Award on FPGA Research
Aug. 1999: California MICRO
Program continued its support to the research project at UCLA VLSI CAD Laboratory on "SRAM-Based
FPGA Synthesis and Architecture Evaluation" for 1999-2000. This
project is co-sponsored by all major PLD/FPGA vendors, including Actel, Altera,
Lucent Technologies, Quickturn, Vantis,
and Xilinx. This project will be
directed by Prof. Jason Cong.
July, 1999:
New SRC Award
July, 1999: UCLA VLSI CAD Laboratory
received another award from Semiconductor Research
Corporation for the project on "Nonlinear Programming for
Large-Scale Circuit Placement with Complex Constraints". It is a
three-year project starting July 1999. The principal investigator of the
project is Prof. Jason Cong, and the
co-investigators are Prof. Tony Chan
(UCLA Math Department) and Prof. Joe
Shinnerl (UCLA Computer Science Department). Tianming Kong is the graduate student
researcher working on the project.
June, 1999 :
Student Award for Yeanyow Hwang
Yeanyow Hwang received 1999 UCLA Computer
Science Department Outstanding Ph.D. Award.
June, 1999 :
New Contract for Prof. Jason Cong's Group
Jason Cong's research group was awarded another contract from Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) on
"Nonlinear Programming for Large-Scale Circuit Placement with Complex
Constraints".
April 26th, 1999 : David Z. Pan Awarded 1999 IBM Research
Fellowship
David Z. Pan
was awarded the prestigious IBM Research
Fellowship for the 1999/2000 academic year. Only about 25 Ph.D. students in
US and Canada are awarded, in all areas of interest to IBM, including
electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, and related
disciplines. With over 350 exceptional candidates this year, it is indeed a
special honor to obtain an IBM Research Award. Congratulations to David!
April 3rd, 1999 : Congraturations to Yeanyow Hwang
Dr. Hwang has
successfully completed his Ph.D. study at UCLA in March 1999. Currently Yeanyow
joined Synopsys Design Compiler team.
March 24th, 1999 : Software Donation from Microsoft
Microsoft Corp. donated its software to
VLSI CAD Lab at UCLA for the PC platforms. The donation package include: one Windows
NT 4.0 Server, two Windows NT 4.0 Workstation with Office 97 Pro and Visual
Studio 6.0. The total value of the package is $4,943.00. The donation is
to encourage Universities doing research and developement on Windows NT
plateform.
June, 1998 :
Ph.D. Graduates go to Academic
Cheng-kok Koh and Patrick Madden both got their Ph.D. degree in June 1998. Now
Dr. Koh is a professor in Purdue
University,
November,
1998 : New Machines from Intel Corp.
Intel Corp. denated four high performance
PCs to VLSI CAD lab at UCLA. The donations include:
- Two 450Mhz workstations with Pentium II Xeon
processor
- Two 450Mhz computing servers with dual Pentium
II processors
November,
1998 : Student Awards
David Z. Pan won "Best Paper in
Session" award in TECHON'98
November,
1998 : Post-Doctoral goes to industry
Dongmin Xu goes to Cadence Design System Inc.
in November, 1998.